Saint-Hilaire-les-Andresis / Saint-Hilaire-les-Andrésis / Saint-Hilaire-les-Andresy / Saint-Hilaire-lès-Andrésy

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view of church exterior - west view

the original church here is documented as early as 1029, but the present building dates mostly of the 18th and 19thC
Scene Description: the original church here is documented as early as 1029, but the present building dates mostly of the 18th and 19thC
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © François Goglins, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 September 2014 by François Goglins [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saint-Hilaire-les-Andrésis-FR-45-église-03.jpg] [accessed 26 March 2017]
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INFORMATION

Font ID: 04765HIL
Object Type: Stoup
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Late Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Église Sainte-Hilaire à Saint-Hilaire-les-Andrésis [now in a museum; orig. from the church at Saint-Hilaire-lès-Andrésy]
Font Location in Church: In a museum
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Hilary of Poitiers
Church Notes: church here documented early-11thC, related to the priory and monastery at Andrésy; damaged by fire 1214, and in the wars between 1358 and 1428; re-built 15th and 16thC; modified 17th and 18thC; most furnishings replaced 19thC [source: www.saint-hilaire-les-andresis.fr/fr/information/32968/histoire [accessed 26 March 2017]]
Church Address: 45320 Saint-Hilaire-les-Andrésis, France
Site Location: Loiret, Centre-Val de Loire, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the D32, 4 km WNW of Courtenay, 25 km ENE of Montargis, 90 km ENE of Orléans
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse d'Orléans
Historical Region: Le Gâtinais pauvre
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the 10th-11thC church here)
Font Notes:
Described in Lasteyrie (1926-1927) as a holy-water stoup which matches the type and ornamentation of those of the 15th century. Lasteyrie gives the location ca. 1926 as the Musée d'Orléans, and its place of origin the church at Saint-Hilaire-lès-Andrésy in the Loiret.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: metal

REFERENCES

  • Lasteyrie du Saillant, Robert Charles, conte de, Architecture réligieuse en France à l'époque gothique (éd. posthume par Marcel Aubert)[2 vols.], Paris: A. Picard, 1926-1927, vol. 2, p. 521